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A laboratory nurse carries samples taken from a child with a suspected case of mpox.

Africa CDC Declares Mpox Emergency, Moving to Lead Response

by Linda Nordling

The declaration will enable Africa to take on a more prominent role in the fight against the outbreak

Governance
A local health official and a nurse consult documents containing information about monkeypox after taking samples from patients

What South Africa's Fatal Mpox Cases Mean for the Global Crisis

by Linda Nordling

A nurse holds a monkeypox vaccination at the Northwell Health Immediate Care Center at Fire Island-Cherry Grove.

A health worker wearing ebola protection gear, stands outside the Biosecure Emergency Care Unit at the ALIMA Ebola Treatment Center.
Poverty

Investments in Rapid Outbreak Responses: Spend Now, Save Later

by Amanda McClelland

New pandemic preparedness approaches from Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria balance speed and financing

Women and their children wait for a consultation with Dr. Fabien Kongolo in the waiting area of the Yakusu General Hospital, Tshopo, Democratic Republic of Congo, October 5, 2022.
Poverty

Hope for a Neglected Condition

An interview with an organizer and activist born with sickle cell disease in the DRC, plus a leading medical expert

A nurse in a blue protective suit, white mask, and green hair net prepares a COVID-19 vaccine at the Ngaliema Clinic in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, April 29, 2021.
Trade

COVID-19 "Vaccinodromes" and the Power of Partnership

by Freddy Nkosi

How government-NGO collaborations can boost vaccination in Africa

A newborn Congolese baby yawns inside the maternity ward at the Kapangu maternity health centre in Kaniki-Kapangu, in Kasai Oriental Province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
Gender

In Kansas, Health Care Is Failing Pregnant Women Who Are Refugees

by Taylor Cusick

"Appointments were fraught with the silence of uncomfortable providers"

An Ebola survivor plays with a boy suspected of being infected with Ebola virus in a transit centre in Beni, North Kivu Province of Democratic Republic of Congo, December 15, 2018.
Governance

How Congo's 2018 Ebola Outbreak Can Inform the Middle East's Response to COVID-19

by Serena Tohme

Countries in the MENA region can learn from both the successes and failures of past outbreaks in conflict zones

Congolese girls displaced by war stand on the outskirts of a makeshift camp near Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on February 11, 2009. The photo shows two girls standing on a hill overlooking a camp filled with white tents at sunset. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly
Gender

Dual Pandemics: Coronavirus and Gender-Based Violence

by Karen Sherman

With violence doubling in some places, women bear the brunt of COVID-19—lessons from Rwanda for a post-pandemic world

Cooking jackets are laid down and displayed as part of a COVID-19 protest by workers of the cafe and restaurant business demanding more help from the government in Brussels, Belgium, on May 7, 2020. The photo shows an array of shirts, mostly white but a few black ones, laid out over thousands of square feet of a lawn. It's a striking photo. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Poverty

A Call for Global Solidarity

by Amanda McClelland

If COVID-19 has taught anything, it's that we are one world—and a world where many places need money and technical help

A man offers funeral prayers for a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officer who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a graveyard in New Delhi, India, April 29, 2020. The photo shows a man dressed entirely in protective gear with his head bowed in font of an ambulance and before what appears to be a corpse wrapped in white sheets. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Poverty

Rethinking the Future of Global Health

by Vaibhav Gupta

There can be no better time to reimagine our health security based on global cooperation, equity, trust, and solidarity

A man coughs as children walk past roadside, during the coronavirus pandemic in Nairobi, Kenya April 19, 2020. This is a powerful image of two children looking at a man who is coughing into his had with his head turned. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
Urbanization

Coronavirus in East Africa

by Moses Tetui

Disease-induced divisions and challenges to regional blocs are set to deepen in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic

Residents look from behind a closed gate as members of the military patrol during a nationwide lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of novel coronavirus. Soweto, South Africa; April 23, 2020
Poverty

One Size Doesn’t Fit All

by Rumi Chunara, Rajesh Vedanthan, ​​​​​​​Olatunji Matthew Kolawole, Gbenga Ogedegbe

When collecting COVID-19 data and modeling epidemic curves, we need to take more into account—in Africa and elsewhere

A logo is pictured on the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) ahead of a meeting of the Emergency Committee on the novel coronavirus in Geneva, Switzerland on January 30, 2020.
Governance

The World Health Organization and Pandemic Politics

by David P. Fidler

The Good, the Bad, and an Ugly Future for Global Health

Traders sit near a deserted crossing point between Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda amid concerns about the spread of coronavirus on March 23, 2020. The photo shows a number of women sitting in front of a storefront painted blue and adorned by a large cartoon figure of a cow giving a thumb's up. REUTERS/Olivia Acland
Poverty

Epidemics and Infodemics in the Post-Truth Era, from Ebola to COVID-19

by Sonya Stokes

Social media can be a powerful weapon in the post-truth era. Or it can be a catalyst for the next global health disaster